title: Terminology-based documentation systems: a systemantic comparison of four different approaches.
abstract: The supplementation of documentation systems with controlled vocabularies is a prerequisite for improved and consistent communication, high data quality and efficient data exchange. To outline the requirements of an application system which supports the terminology-based development of documentation systems, existing documentation systems offering a terminological support in the definition of item collections were retrieved in the literature and analyzed. The analysis of four selected documentation systems caused us to define four main criteria for a terminology-based documentation system, which are: use of a controlled vocabulary, definition of a characteristic level, the definition of a value domain level and definition of roles and entities to combine vocabulary, characteristic and value domain levels together.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Medizinische Informationsverarbeitung, Biometrie und Epidemiologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany.
authors.forename: Sylvie M N
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Ngouongo
authors.forename: Jürgen
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Stausberg
mesh_terms: D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D004282:Documentation / Q000379:methods*; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled